Christian Clavier
- Acting
- May 6, 1952 · Paris, France
Biography
Christian Clavier is a French actor, screenwriter, film producer and film director. He is the brother of French film director Stéphane Clavier. After his high class studies at the Neuilly Lycée Pasteur—though asserted here and there, he never studied at Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) —he started his actor career with the comedic theater troupe Splendid, which had hits with films like Les Bronzés font du ski and Le Père Noël est une ordure. His most notable success without the Splendid group, and by far his biggest hit to date, was in the 1993 film les Visiteurs, where he played a character known as Jacquouille la fripouille; the character's cry of "Okkkayyy!!" became a popular exclamation after the movie's success. After les Visiteurs he was a certified star, participating in big-budget films like Astérix et Obélix contre César, Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre, and the sequel and remake of Visiteurs. He also played several dramatic roles on television, including M. Thénardier in Les Misérables (2000 television version) and Napoléon in a biographical television film. Clavier has played in notable duos with: Jean Reno in les Visiteurs (the Visitors) and the US remake, Just Visiting, L'Opération Corned-Beef and L'Enquête corse (The Corsican investigation). Gérard Depardieu in Astérix et Obélix (Asterix and Obelix) and Les anges gardiens. He also runs a production company, Ouille Production. He was made Chevalier (Knight) of the Ordre national du Mérite on 13 June 1998, and promoted Officier (Officer) in 2005. He was made Chevalier (Knight) of the Légion d'honneur in 2008. He is a friend of former French président Nicolas Sarkozy, and recently emigrated to England as a result of Francois Hollande's punitive tax policy, mirrored in his Astérix co-star Gérard Depardieu's self-imposed exile to Belgium.
Known for
Filmography
- Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part II) · Le Jurisconsulte
- Serial Teachers 3 · Cutiro / Tirocu
- Avis de tempête · André Malraux
- Asterix: The Kingdom of Nubia · Astérix (Voice)
- Cocorico 2 · Frédéric Bouvier-Sauvage / Mehmet Suleymanoglu
- Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part I) · Le Jurisconsulte
- Million Dollar Madness · Hippolyte
- Christian Clavier: La Vis Comica
- The Rookie Guide · Karol Kowalski
- Not Without My Shrink · Olivier Béranger
- Loris Giuliano en balade · Self
- Cocorico · Frédéric Bouvier Sauvage
- Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma · Self
- Mr. Putifar's Wacky Plan · Robert Poutifard
- L'Âge d'or de la pub · Self
- Il était une fois Champs-Élysées · Self
- Employee of the Month · Michel Gougnat, syndicaliste
- Serial (Bad) Weddings 3 · Claude Verneuil
- Christmas with the Tuches · Le Père Noël
- Kaamelott: The First Chapter · Le Jurisconsulte
- Do You Do You Saint-Tropez · Jean Boulin, Co-producer
- Qu'est-ce qu'ils ont fait au bon Dieu ? · Self
- Papy fait de la résistance · Author
- Samedi Sébastien · Self
- Meet the Malawas · Julien Gosset-Grainville
- Ibiza · Philippe
- Wide Load · Foster
- Serial (Bad) Weddings 2 · Claude Verneuil
- Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion · Astérix (Voice)
- Spirou & Fantasio's Big Adventures · Comte de Champignac
- Finding Momo · Alain Prioux
- With Open Arms · Jean-Etienne Fougerole, Producer
- If I Were a Boy · Docteur PACE
- A Bag of Marbles · Docteur Rosen
- The Visitors: Bastille Day · Jacquouille la Fripouille/Antoine-Claude Jacquouillet/Edmond Jacquart, Writer
- Babysitting 2 · Alain
- Do Not Disturb · Michel Leproux
- The Secret of Arkandias · Agenor Arkandias
- Serial (Bad) Weddings · Claude Verneuil
- Des Bronzés au Père Noël, la folle histoire du Splendid · Self / Various characters
- Le Bœuf clandestin · monsieur Berthaud
- Les affaires sont les affaires · Le marquis de Porcellet
- Serial Teachers · Cutiro / Tirocu
- You Don't Choose Your Family · César, Director
- Il était une fois... « Le père Noël est une ordure » · Self
- La Cage aux folles · Georges
- Le Bourgeois gentilhomme · Monsieur Jourdain
- Bitter Victory · Vincent Cluzel
- C à vous · Self
- The Imaginary Invalid · Argan
- The Red Inn · Pierre Martin, Scenario Writer
- The Price to Pay · Jean-Pierre Ménard
- L'Entente cordiale · François de La Conche
- Kronprinz Rudolf · Graf Taaffe
- French Fried Vacations 3: Friends Forever · Jérôme Tarayre, Writer
- Empire of the Wolves · Screenplay
- The Antidote · Jacques-Alain Marty « JAM »
- Les Visiteurs revisités · Self
- The Corsican File · Rémi François, aka Jack Palmer, Writer
- Albert est méchant · Patrick Lechat
- Lovely Rita · Edgar Lamarck, Producer
- La Méthode Cauet · Self
- Le Cœur sur la main · Producer
- Napoleon · Napoléon Bonaparte
- How we made Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra · Self
- A Day in the Life of French Cinema · Self
- Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra · Astérix
- Just Visiting · Andre, Screenplay
- Les Misérables · Thénardier
- Asterix and Obelix Take On Caesar · Astérix
- Vivement dimanche · Self
- The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time · Jacquouille la Fripouille / Jacques-Henri Jacquard / Prosper le Purineur / Jacouillet, Screenplay
- Les Sœurs Soleil · Un spectateur
- Panique au Plazza · Jean-Louis Bonnot, Mr. Coïk's secretary, Adaptation
- Guardian Angels · Père Hervé Tarain / La « mauvaise conscience », Writer
- Dead Tired · Christian Clavier
- Revenge of a Blonde · Gérard Bréha
- The Thirst for Gold · Urbain Donnadieu, Writer
- The Visitors · Jacquouille la Fripouille / Jacques-Henri Jacquard, Screenplay
- Les gens ne sont pas forcément ignobles · Pierre